long and useless

I think the best thing "Once Upon a Time" did, was to create terrifying, manipulative, and ultimately, sympathetic Evil Queen. The next best thing was to create a anti-heroine who wouldn't fall short of that. And wasn't perfect.

I'm here! I'm alive! I'm going to import all my LJ entries here! I'm trying to figure out a place (or rather, two places) to store all my fanfiction! It's going to happen! 2012 is a new year!

... this is the sort of time I wish I had magic fingers that could snap! and everything would automatically configure into exactly how I want it to be. Such wishes!

Happy new year! And I just realized I haven't read any Yuletide fics yet!

Is anyone participating in help_haiti? I'm offering a fic here and I'd like to see if someone on my flist has also participated so I can seek you all out. Have made a donation to Doctors Without Borders, but I feel relatively useless so after a bit of thought, I'm participating. Hopefully, it'll help out in a tiny way.

Everyone should have seen the various links now scattered about donating. The non-profit I'm currently supporting is Doctors Without Borders. Please bid on something at help_haiti or donate a little to the group/any verifiable non-profit. Every bit counts and a dollar is just as important as ten or twenty.

Remember: Always check the group you're thinking of donating to. Not just to see whether the group is legit or not, but where your donation may fund. Some groups have a poor ratio of administrative costs versus actual charitable givings and activities.

I am surprisingly both hysterically excited and rather apathetic about the sixth movie. But I have my midnight tickets. I'm dragging someone along.

It should be fantastic. And I'm excited, I am! But at the same time, I'm almost reluctant to see the movie. It's going to be the end of months and months of delicious anticipation. HOW SICK AM I?

Also. It means we're one movie closer to the end.

And that sounds a lot more pathetic than it is is.

I'm speaking in one-liner sentences today.

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I think I shall dress-up for the midnight premiere.

Yesterday, I had my nieces beg me to take them to the weekend premiere of "Twilight". These are the nieces who are often too cool to go out with me. (I guess I've been relegated to Crazy Aunt status, while my sister wins the coveted 'Cool Aunt' status)

BUT... being such a huge Harry Potter fan in my family, they assumed I would also be a lover of "Twilight", and would be more than glad to drive them to the theatre to see the movie. Which, when I told them I wasn't a fan of the series, disappointed them so much that I conceded and said I would take them the weekend AFTER the premiere weekend. I don't want to end up in the mishmash of people going this weekend. And it'll be easier for me to buy a ticket to another movie and then sneaking into this one. I know, I know, my friend said that was such a petty move, but I really don't want my measly ticket counting toward some final total...

I gotta admit, it's cute how much my cousins like the series. While I might rant about it to friends and family, it's kind of hard to tell thirteen/fifteen year olds that this is a movie of a book series that irritates me, I hate Edward Cullen (they love him, for the record), Bella annoys me, I am baffled by their love story, and blahblahblah. Cause that's what I would sound like to them. Blah blah blah blah.

What's weird... I remember the weeks going up to the first Harry Potter movie and how darn excited I was. I remember reading every article I could get my hands on and buying tons of newspapers that had even the smallest clipping about the movie/book/ and clipping them out to save. I remember attending the midnight premiere with a bunch of friends and cheering when two of my friends, in costume, had a mock duel in the front of the theatre. (Yay for fan involvement) It was, in one word, awesome.

Newspapers and reviewers have been comparing the "Twilight" phenomenon with Harry Potter and I've been mostly bristling at that comparison, but... I guess I see their point. Sort of.

But our books were different.

So, er, there.

Note: to be clear, I actually think the movie will be much better than the books. Just staying. Catherine Hardwick is directing, of Thirteen fame. I loved, loved that movie, so I think this isn't going to be a badder take on a bad book. It's going to be like the opposite of the HP movies (for me, anyways) where the books were more appealing than the movies.

EDIT:

OMG.

OMG.

I'm laughing so hard. This review by James Wolcott of Vanity Fair is just about the funniest review I've read about "Twilight". And it's not totally disparaging...

Having bought a permanent account, I'm pretty annoyed that LJ's on the road of ruin in regards to fandom. I'm essentially here for fandom; I post very little about my real life. Or rather, I post very few substantial things. I have a private, handwritten journal for that and it serves me fine. LJ is, mostly, fandom for me.

I have a name at GreatestJournal and InsaneJournal (the same as here, though I'm contemplating changing it to my pen name, Demeter, since the '918' is an old, old joke that I don't even remember much of) and the idea of transferring everything is making me twitch. Because I'm a really lazy person.

Man... I kinda wish I could get my 150 dollars back. I'd still maybe spring for a paid account since I have some dried, crusty dredges of faith that LJ will be able to get past this, but not enough for a permanent. =(

... well. There's always yahoogroups. *shudder*

I'm not the world's biggest fan of Joss Whedon, but he made a post about the vid of the so-called 'honor killing' of Dua Kalil, and it made me swallow.

I kind of wish more peeps, in general, thought like this.

Natsuki Takaya set to debut new manga series on June 5 in hanatoyume.

I'm going to pick up the first issue and check it out; after Fruits Basket, the question is going to be... is she going to top the extravaganza that brought us Akito? Her previous series tended to be wildly different from each other, but with FB still hanging over our heads, it's going to be weird for me to look at a character and not think of Akito. But I have hopes for this, because Takaya-sensei is fantabulous and she's probably going to spin out another series that destroys my soul. Again. XD

The anime box has arrived from Tokyo!

Now I must categorize. And organize. And make a list. ;_;

Of note... let's see...

umadoshi - I did find some Rin stuff! Just two things though, and fairly standard as merchandise goes. But it's Rin and it's pretty. =P

wasabi_fiend - I did find the box of Bleach trading cards and it's sitting on my floor right now.

flamika - I found one of those oversized plastic pictures of Kureno! And it's pre-chunky Kureno!

theladyfeylene - you are going to die when you see the FMA thing I picked out. ~_^ It's that cute.

xandria - I hope you haven't purchased/ordered V.5 of Dr. Ten's series...

I found stuff for basically everyone who'd commented. Will list swag later. Soon. Um, yes. ^^;;

I also got the Prince of Tennis Halloween pic thing (v. cute) for the PoT fan on my flist. You know who you are. And randomly, I picked up two artbooks. One is the Yun Kouga artbook for Loveless and the other is the Yuu Higuri artbook named, aptly, Poison. Mm, my special love will always be reserved for artbooks. *snuggles*

( ... hey, fucker? )

*goes to drown self in work*

=) Whoo, that felt good.